How about the nearly 1,100,000 other Canadian employees/families that work in franchised outlets?

Don’t the union and NDP brainiacs understand that 3G Capital will be forcing the franchisees to do their dirty work by laying off tens of thousands of their hourly and managers, many of them personal friends? Hello: jacking up franchisees cost of goods to +32%, driving their “equity” into the red, makes layoffs inevitable.

Franchisees dislike unions true. But the fear and loathing for the vulture capitalists is profound, notwithstanding the company-man, shill franchisees.

Smart, silent current franchisees know the sewer they’re being sent into: Country Style, Second Cup, Coffee Time, Bakers’ Dozen, etc.

Maybe check with the Fightfor15.org people to find out why they are very, very interested in knowing more about franchising?

btw: McDonald’s (franchisor and franchisees) has just been fined by the U.S. National Labor Relations Board because they judge McDonald’s as a “joint employer” (see here, here).

Full Disclosure: I was a franchisee (twice), studied poli sci, a member of the Teamsters’ union, and continue to be viewed as a “union organizer” by franchisors and their toadies.

Based on the theory that your enemy’s enemy, is your friend, you’d think it’d be Palm Sunday for Mr. Stewart and the Canadian Alliance of Franchise Operators rather than a type of amateur hour.

With friends like this, it almost makes a guy see red.

Dale Carnegie moment: Of course, saying you care about the lost jobs is a lot easier than having to co-operate with people that have, like, technical knowledge of the most sophisticated form of international commerce: business format franchising.

small groups of franchisees commissioning research (sharing cost information),

non-lawyer franchise expert coach consulting,

an independent franchisee association (no franchise bar involvement),

shared services, supply co-operative(s),

non-franchise bar case preparation, and

equity and gross margin protection.

The Right to Associate provision (the de facto CDN standard and what all franchisees in the world aspire to for justice) is one last conceptual obstacle preventing franchisees from taking their appropriate seat at the adult’s table.

Proof?: after 14-15 years, the CDN franchise bar has filtered each attempt to plead Right to Associate (trial and appeal), thereby, defeating the ON justices from activating its potential.